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q that it takes more space aud aTgumen,
to prove point that ia Disputed ihOn to
prove point that ia conceded.
Fourth, peoples ideas differ "a 70 what
consliihies abuse. Republicans have some
peculiar Jiiras on thia matter. For exam
pie, when tie Cdmmeisinl stated that the
Republican party should have fought the
ST. John frauds with fire aud birthstone
cluhr, ritchioihs aid buicheIknives; when
they hung our candidates in efigy when
they mobbed our spenkep, when they pro-
cnimed that we were a vel Ut cranka, fouIs
blniher-kites idiots, etc, etc, az in6titum
it never occurred tn the average Republican
10 think shat the Republican party wa
rl'tsive, hut when II Prohibit oniat call.
attention to ihe famous declaration of
Govrrnur Foraker that the principles of
regulation aud taxation nre eternal aud
hat 10 these principles tile Republican
patty Ia nnaltersbly committed, that is re-
gardrd NJ tie vilest ui Gliase. So when
Republican sees IN Prohibition paper thu
declaration that the Democratic psrty il
and always hns been under the dominance
OF the liquor power, and that it never has
and never can elect its ticket in this State
without the aid IF the liquor vote, Che
average Republican accepts that statement
ns aimple matter Of fact, und ii never &C
ours To him that in SO saying we are say
IN ~ u l,nx If n 4.
il in the next paragraph we state that the
Republican party without the liquor vote
Ia In minority IN the State Of Ohio, that
ia regarded as bitter abuse, and when in
one article these two statements appear side
by side, the average Republican rcod4
them and ineuires: Why do the Prclibl-
tionists make all their attacks upon the
Republican party?
1t is not possible to put the two prlies
in precisely the same light nor IL it PCS
slble for them 10 feel aud see mattera N
the same way. The Republican parg has
been for so long dominant in the ration
that its members have acquired the i'm
preston (they would not make the dellaru.
iion in these words, but they have feeling
TO that effect) that somehow or other the
Republican party has II divine right to
rule, and that anything raid against the
Republican party or anything That inter
feies with lis success is akin to treason. Il
has uow become almost impossible for the
average Republican to look at anything
connected with his party through clear
spectacles. HIS mission has been some
what distorted by the glasses OF political
association that lie sees through. Cunse-
quen,ly he regards any statement that he
thinks is likely to injure his party as an
attack" while any statement that is cal
culated to injure the Democratic party lie
accepts Ns u simple matter of fact, and It
never occurs to HIM that it is an attack
upon the Democratic party.
In the south the position is precisely re-
ver4ed. There, the Democratic party, lon,
dominant, has the same yuwa Of divine
right as the Republican party in the North
and in the Southern Democratic papera we
find Just the same complaint thai we find
in the North in the Republican ones, fair
sample OF which is shown in the following
extract from the Tyler CreIas) Democrn /:
Whenever one OF the Prohibition leader.
or their organs condemn any uolilicui
party, II is always euro Ia be the Demo-
cratic narlyn r. 9 II